![]() ![]() He met his wife Anna through mutual peacemaking interests expressed through American Friends Service Committee. After accepting teaching roles at Olney Friends School and then Pickering College, he attended Harvard where he completed his doctorate in Physics. Born in West Chester, PA to parents of both Orthodox and Hicksite backgrounds, he went on to study at Haverford College, obtaining a master’s degree in 1906. Howard Brinton (1884–1973) was an influential Quaker historian, professor and author. “Trouble of soul can teach us things that raptures never could – not only patience and perseverance, but humility and sympathy with others.” He went on to play an influential role in the No-Conscription Fellowship, an organization that supported and unified conscientious objectors in Britain during World War One. He served as a catalyst in the Quaker Renaissance movement, a time in which Young Friends in London Yearly Meeting shifted away from evangelicalism and towards liberal Christianity. At the time, he felt that he still did not have a firm grasp on the rootedness of his faith, but believed it would come in time. Grubb wrote a number of hymns and became a recorded Friends minister. He found that he could not identify as agnostic and remained open to integrating his intellectual queries with a belief in God. During this period, he turned to social concerns. As he pursued graduate studies, Grubb encountered a crisis of faith in attempting to reconcile faith with science. Alleluia!Įdward Grubb (Octo– January 23, 1939) helped to reawaken and deepen Quakers’ commitment to pacifism in the late 19th century.īorn in Suffolk, England in 1854, he attended a Quaker boarding school where he later became an instructor. We dedicate ourselves to building the peace that passeth all understanding, to the repair of the world, opening our lives to the Light to guide us in each small step. We dedicate ourselves to let the living waters flow through us – where we live, regionally, and in wider world fellowship. □We are called to be patterns and examples in a 21st century campaign for peace and ecojustice, as difficult and decisive as the 18th and 19th century drive to abolish slavery. □ We are called to do justice to all and walk humbly with our God, to cooperate lovingly with all who share our hopes for the future of the earth. ![]() □ We are called to teach our children right relationship, to live in harmony with each other and all living beings in the earth, waters and sky of our Creator, who asks, “Where were your when I laid the foundations of the world?” (Job 38:4) □We are called to see what love can do: to love our neighbor as ourselves, to aid the widow and orphan, to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, to appeal to consciences and bind the wounds. We waste our children's heritageĪll of these are driven by our dominant economic systems – by greed not need, by worship of the market, by Mammon and Caesar. There are wars and rumors of war, job loss, inequality and violence. We have heard of forests cut down, seasons disrupted, wildlife dying, of land hunger in Africa, of new diseases, droughts, floods, fires, famine and desperate migrations – this climatic chaos is now worsening. We have heard appeals from peoples of the Arctic, Asia and Pacific. We have heard of the disappearing snows of Kilimanjaro and glaciers of Bolivia, from which come life-giving waters. However few our numbers, we are called to be the salt that flavours and preserves, to be a light in the darkness of greed and destruction. We are called to work for the peaceable Kingdom of God on the whole earth, in right sharing with all peoples. Jesus said, “As you have done unto the least. Earthcare unites traditional Quaker testimonies: peace, equality, simplicity, love, integrity, and justice. We must change, we must become careful stewards of all life. Now humanity dominates, our growing population consuming more resources than nature can replace. In past times God’s Creation restored itself. It is being circulated with the Conference Epistle. It is the culmination of the FWCC World Consultation on Global Change which was held in 20. The Kabarak Call for Peace and Ecojustice was approved on 24 April 2012 at the Sixth World Conference Friends, held at Kabarak University near Nakuru, Kenya. The Kabarak Call for Peace and Ecojustice
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